Slow news day?

The true evidence of my comic geekiness is not the mere fact that I read comic books. Or the presence of longboxes on the back porch and shortboxes behind the couch.

No, it's the fact that I consistently decorate my computer desktop in a comic book theme. The wallpaper. Well, many of us do that, I'm sure--you can go to DC Comics every Wednesday to see the new wallpapers they've got out to advertise their titles. Marvel isn't as regular, but they do put up new designs fairly often. So there's that. (I have not, however, attempted to make my own wallpaper. I suppose that would be another level.)

Then there's the slideshow for the sidebar. We've got Vista on the laptop, and while the husband and elder daughter immediately deleted the sidebar from their desktops, I fell totally in love with it. (Actually I switched to a non-Vista version of a sidebar, but that's beside the point.) Big-ass clock. Quick launch icons that I can actually see. In winter, the weather. And, sometimes, a slideshow of images set up to match the wallpaper.

Next, if I've got extra time on my hands, I change the color preferences--red if I'm going with a Captain America theme, for example. Today it's Green Lantern, so it's green. I also change the colors of the sidebar.

And finally, I change my Winamp skin to something in a complementary color. As I said, today that means green.

My computer screen looks like it's radiating kryptonite...